Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.